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Originally a gag-a-day comic, more recent Story Arcs have been more dark and dramatic. Originally drawn by Gedeon, it started with a MWF update schedule, but soon fell victim to Schedule Slip, and only updated weekly (or less). Eric Boismier took over art duties for a time and got the comic onto a regular twice-a-week schedule. Eric has since moved and left the strip, but Ed managed to (mostly) maintain the schedule, updating the strip on Mondays and Fridays. Unfortunately, due to the combination of his wife's death, and having to look for a job, Ed went on a nearly year-long hiatus after the February 6th, 2016 strip before resuming the strip on January 5th, 2017. Updates were sporadic for the next several months, then artist duties were taken up by Elisa Price. Gedeon has taken over drawing again as of November 2018, aiming for once-a-week updates.

Mr. Mighty: Now see miss, if you had attacked me from the front like a civilized person, this could have been avoided... Iron Jane: STUFF IT mullet head! What the %$#&@% is your skull made of anyway, concrete?! Mr. Mighty: Now that's just rude.

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Alt Text: On just about every page. However, during the comic's move from Webcomics Nation to Smack Jeeves when the former started dying, some alt text and author commentaries were lost and as a result, chapters 12 through 14 currently lack them on Smack Jeeves. Thanks to the Wayback Machine though, a few of the missing bits of text can be found, if one is willing to go through the trouble of matching up post dates and sometimes looking at source code. For example, this page corresponded with this page.

Amoral Attorney: Averted with both Lee Free and his son even though they come at the law from different directions.

Brick Joke: In one strip, Scary Mary gives a seemingly senseless rant which turned out to be an accurate prediction of the future. Although the events took place only a few weeks later in comic time, in real time they were published over four years later.

Angela constantly picks on Summer and Carrie, despite the fact that either of them could take her apart with little effort. And also despite the fact that she comes out on the wrong end of those altercations more often than not.

Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Wrecking Paul, a sociopathic serial killer with a preference for ladies... and hires them as sidekicks, in case his victims aren't as planned.

Christianity Is Catholic: Carrie's denomination hasn't been openly stated, but she did say that she wanted to be a nun when she was young and she has been seen praying to Mary, something Protestants rarely if ever do.

The Faceless: Even though we see quite a few people behind masks; the most constant is Mister Mighty whom we get to see remove his mask, but only as silhouette. Granted, we see his face in Jane's Back Story arc, but every other time in the comic he never takes his mask off, even when just doing normal stuff like reading the paper at home or having meal with the family.

Gender-Blender Name: Mr. Mighty's name is Marion. Explained in this strip as being the result of his parents being old movie buffs. His other two brothers are named Michael and Morrison, the other two parts of John Wayne's original name. His sisters come off a bit better with Marilyn and Monroe.

Also subverted with Cool Hand Lucy - she can only drop her opponent's body temperature by five degrees, but that's plenty enough to leave a normal person nearly paralyzed with hypothermia.

HeelFace Turn: Regulated in this universe. Whenever an ex-supervillain moves to a new house they have to do a version of Megan's Law. This involves them dressing up in their old costume and telling their life's story. A major plot arc was Jane telling the new neighbors about her life in the Jane Gang.

Jedi Mind Trick: Kid Charisma (and his family) have a Glamour that can be used to compel criminals to surrender. For the Kid, this also leads to quite a bit of Power Perversion Potential, where he has a different girl on his arm every five minutes.

Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Carrie's hair can do things that would count as a full-blown superpower in most any other setting, but nobody seems to class her as a super. Also, everyone seems to have access to Hammerspace.

MayDecember Romance: Ben Sharpley and his second wife, Jintara. Enough of an age difference that she's a year younger than her stepson, Thump. Justified: she was a mail-order bride.

Power Incontinence: Summer has to wear a special mask, 24/7, to keep her Eye Beams in check. Might be a shout out to the X-Men member Cyclops, who has the same problem (needing eyewear to keep his beams in check).

The Halloween storyline has numerous costumes and cameos from various webcomics.

Snicket Warning Label: The details of Wrecking Paul's murders are preceded by a completely serious author's warning that the comic is about to depict and describe acts of brutal violence against women, read at your own discretion.

Uma's glasses, when turned to maximum power, project a weirdness censor so strong, it jams whatever devices the mysterious dog and cow guys are using to track her. Of course, that still provides some useful information...

What the Hell, Hero?: Ben Sharpley gives a well deserved lecture to Summer about learning to use her powers properly, since she openly admits to avoiding using them, and has caused several accidents already, yet was prepared to fight Ben's unpowered daughter without considering the consequences. Time will tell if she takes this seriously or not.

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